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BBC Stands By Decision To Censor The Word “Palestine” From Rap Verse
To quote the late, great Amy Winehouse, “What kind of f*ckery is this?” In February 2011, British MC Mic Righteous spit a verse on late night BBC Radio containing the following words: I still have…
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Dilla Lives! Two Unreleased James Yancey Gems
Today James Yancey would’ve turned 38 years old, if his life hadn’t been cut short by dramatic health problems back in 2006. But instead of lamenting the huge loss to music, let’s celebrate the gems…
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Classics Revisited: A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders
These days, the word “classic” is thrown around as loosely as a Nerf ball at a picnic. However, we at TRU consider classics to be something which stand the test of time and have a…
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Grafh and Sarah Jay Make a Porno
Grafh kicks a freestyle while adult entertainer Sarah Jay shakes her assets. In between rapping and ass-shaking, they take turns filming each other’s moves. How ki-yoot.
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5 Classic Hip-Hop Album Covers Reimagined As NES Games
People involved with hip-hop often talk about it as a game. Though this is not intended litterally, hip-hop did come up during the same age as and parallel to videogames; from the late 70s to…
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Photo Op: Rakim and Rakim
Old School and New School. Old New York and New New York. Traditional and Eccentric. The Greatest and The Latest. Rakim x Rakim. Go Giants! [r/o/t: Yamborghini Manteca]
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Lyrics Of Fury: Nas On ‘Triple Beam Dreams’
In today’s age of shout-along hooks and pop rap made for the common denominator, it’s reassuring to hear lyricism is still alive. Each month TRU picks a single verse out of the vast amount of…
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The Top 10 St. Ides Commercials
When it comes to artists doing commercials, I’m firmly in Bill Hicks his corner. It’s nigh impossible to do it without turning into a cornball sell-out in the process and it renders every other word…
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Video: A$AP Rocky – Wassup
40s. Hoes. A tub full of dead presidents. Why, yes, it’s the video for A$AP Rocky’s “Wassup.” Directed by Rocky in conjunction with the folks at VICE. Ladies and Gentlemen of the illuminati cognoscenti, please…
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Once Upon A Time, On An Internet All Over The World…
It was a dark time for the empire. A massive uprising like one never seen before on the web had halted the development of their SOPA/PIPA weaponry, and just when the battle seemed to have…
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Jay-Z & The Bitch-Word: Thoughts On The Ridiculous Recycling Of A Hoax
A few days after the birth of Jay-Z and Beyonce’s daughter Blue Ivy Carter Rolling Out premiered a story regarding a poem they received dedicated to Blue Ivy, supposedly by Jay-Z, in which he swears…
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The Rap Up Is On Strike January 18th
We’ll be joining the strike on January 18th, no new posts for that on this fateful Wednesday. Of course, the hip-hop blogosphere knows better than many how dark it can get, as we’ve already seen…
